 Biron they call him : but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Page 335by William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...report*, to his great worthiness. Bos. Another of these students at that time Was there with him : Asb I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a...truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; * So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PBIN. God bless my ladies ! are they all in love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 pages
...report", to his great worthiness. Ros. Another of these students at that time Was there with him : Asb I have heard a truth, Biron they call him ; but a...truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRIN. God bless my ladies ! are they all in love... | |
 | Henrietta Gerwig - Allusions - 1925 - 748 pages
...publican, who not only wrote the words and tunes of songs, but sang them also, and sang them well. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent...catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which hi-j fuir tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears plïiy... | |
 | Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 pages
...the limits of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for hia wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The...truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse." We have an idea from this that Shakespeare was the... | |
 | American essays - 1870 - 850 pages
...Shakespeare has embalmed one of the characters in Love's Labor Lost : — 11 A merrier man, Within UK limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk...truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse." Twenty years ago Daniel Webster said that Dickens... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 206 pages
...him exhibits his capacity for a kind of auto-conception involving the eye, wit, and language: Berowne they call him; but a merrier man Within the limit...truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (2.1.66-76) Even Holofernes can revel in the procreative... | |
 | Leo Salingar - Drama - 1974 - 372 pages
...of 'wit' and the remoteness of the materials it brings together, as in Rosaline's tribute to Berowne His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object...Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers. But this praise of wit is not altogether unambiguous, since the Princess has just spoken of 'such short-lived... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...admiration of their speech (and Berowne's in particular) as a resplendent 'key of conceptions': Ros. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object...expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words. (2. 1. 69ff.) And the pedants, naturally, invest all their efforts in the elaboration of verba as a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...time Was there with him : if I have heard a truth, Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Wiih in ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! are they all in love,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 pages
...becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every ohject that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving...truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished: So sweet and voluble is his discourse.' We were all in fine spirits; and I whispered to Mrs.... | |
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